What's Love Got to Do with IT?

Our annual Valentine’s Day celebrations focus on acknowledging our feelings of gratitude for those we love – spouses, significant others, children, parents, family members including pets, business associates, etc. We take time to focus our energy on a variety of expressions such as cards, chocolates, food, jewelry, toys, etc. as the physical representations of our love for the other.

Just the word “love” conjures up images and feelings, some learned, some inherent biological/hormonal urges, moving us to act. If not consciously checked, our actions may actually be embarrassing, at best, and self-sabotaging, at worst. So, what is “love” anyway? The wisest humans have approached definitions of love with trepidation because we all experience love differently and, therefore, define love individually.

Psychologists have defined love on the basis of a kind of ranking: agape love, sexual love, married love, friendship love, or lustful love, platonic love, an on and on. Love seems to be a human need. But, is it really something that we gather from outside ourselves, or is love something we generate within ourselves?

A theory exists that we are the generators of our emotions, our feelings, meaning that we create the content of energy and then we label the energy. So, living in a dualistic universe means that we generate energies along a spectrum and then we slap labels on the energies we recognize for the purpose of communicating with other humans. The realization that love just IS, frees us from the tyranny of agreeing with definitions.

If love is just an energy which we generate and which we label in order communicate, what does love have to do with anything? The importance is HOW we label energies we experience and how we respond to the energies we experience that exist within or along the spectrum of the polarities between love and its’ polar opposite hate.

Our ability to recognize and label the nuances we experience when we label energy “love” is important. We can consciously refer ourselves that “unconditional” energy of love we sensed when we were children and accepted just as we were so that we generate that sense of love today.

As the source of love energies, we are powerful to shape our world, our relationships, our health, our business in ways to support our goals. Remember, spiritual gurus have preached for millennia that “All there is is Love!”